IndustryEdge’s Australian and New Zealand Export Log Price Index dropped in January 2022 to its lowest point in more than a year before rebounding. In August the price index dropped slightly…

‘Flexing’ is often left to body builders, but importers of sawn softwood products into Australia have been demonstrating their capacity over the last year, delivering a scintillating 956,…

The Forest Resource Use Model (FoRUM) was developed to inform this debate by evaluating the economic impacts of changes in the Australian forestry sector, and despite numerous revisions Fo…

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) is conducting the next round of its five yearly national survey of Australia’s wood processing sector. T…

Sales of locally produced sawn softwood declined 5.0% year-ended September 2022, slipping to 3.048 million m3. The decline is almost 160,000 m3, with few grades in positive territory. The d…

Latest data demonstrates that after continuous increases since June 2020, sawn softwood prices moderated during the September quarter. Though several grades experienced prices growth,…

Australia’s headline inflation rate was up 1.8% in the September quarter and has risen 7.3% over the year-ended September. The biggest rise in the cost of living since 1990 is biting across th…

Despite approvals slowing, the pipeline of building work expanded in the June quarter, with houses under construction lifting 0.9% to 104,226. The pace of building continues to slow, with s…